- 12 - 2023 · Retos Nº 47 / Págs. © Copyright: Federación Española de Asociaciones de Docentes de Educación Física (FEADEF) ISSN: Edición impresa: 1579-1726. EdiciónWeb: 1988-2041 (https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/retos/index) 12-24 Fecha recepción: 19-07-21. Fecha de aceptación: 09-09-22 Larissa Fernanda Porto Maciel larissa.maciel10@edu.udesc.br Sports and school involvement and performance: a systematic review of literature Participación y rendimiento deportivo y escolar: una revisión sistemática de la literatura *Larissa Fernanda Porto Maciel, *Gelcemar Oliveira Farias, *Eduardo José Dallegrave,*Mônica Cristina Flach, **Juarez Vieira do Nascimento, *Alexandra Folle * Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (Brasil); ** Universidade Federal do Estado de Santa Catarina (Brasil) Abstract. The purpose of this article was to map the published empirical investigations on the involvement and sports and school performance of young athletes, through a systematic literature search in the Lilacs, ProQuest, Scielo and SportDiscus electronic databases. The characteristics of the studies were analyzed using absolute frequency, while their results were analyzed using categories (NVIVO PRO, version 12). The 17 selected studies revealed, in the athletes’ perception, more benefits than harms due to the involvement with the sport, a positive relationship between sport and study, and a positive influence of sports practice on the academic performance of student-athletes. It can be concluded that the dual career accumulates numerous commitments and obligations, however, the benefits and positive relationships established make this involvement, in the perception of young people, something favorable to their development, making it essential to their human formation in a comprehensive way. Further research is needed to broaden the understanding of how trainings are related and how they influence the lives of student-athletes throughout their lives. Key Words: Athlete, Students, Education, Youth Sport. Resumen. El objetivo de este artículo fue mapear las investigaciones empíricas publicadas sobre la participación y el rendimiento deportivo y escolar de los jóvenes deportistas, mediante una búsqueda bibliográfica sistemática en las bases de datos electrónicas Lilacs, ProQuest, Scielo y SportDiscus. Las características de los estudios se analizaron mediante frecuencia absoluta, mientras que sus resultados se analizaron mediante categorías (NVIVO PRO, versión 12). Los 17 estudios seleccionados revelaron, en la percepción de los deportistas, una relación positiva entre deporte y estudio, una mayor percepción de beneficios que de daños y una influencia positiva de la práctica deportiva en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes-deportistas. Se puede concluir que la carrera dual acumula numerosos compromisos y obligaciones, sin embargo, los beneficios y relaciones positivas que se establecen hacen de este involucramiento, en la percepción de los jóvenes, algo favorable a su desarrollo, haciéndolo imprescindible para su formación humana de manera integral. Se necesitan más investigaciones para ampliar la comprensión de cómo se relacionan los entrenamientos y cómo influyen en la vida de los estudiantes-atletas a lo largo de sus vidas. Palabras clave: Atleta, Estudiantes, Educación, Deporte juvenil. Introduction Sport is a phenomenon of fundamental importance in view of the influences it exerts, implying behavioral, personal, social, and educational changes in the lives of athletes (Cortês-Neto, Alchieri, Miranda, & Dantas- Cavalcanti, 2010; Costa, Torregrossa, Figueiredo, & Soares, 2021). To reconcile sports practice, simultaneously with school years, it is necessary that student-athletes have access, at all levels of education, to educational measures (Storm & Eske, 2021) that enable a more flexible training process that avoids school and sports failure and abandonment. The scientific literature in the area has shown contradictory results about the relationship between youth involvement and sports and school performance (Rigoni, Belém, & Viera, 2017). While some studies have shown positive effects of sport on the school competence of student-athletes (Batista & Delgado, 2013; Bastos, Reis, Aranha, & Garrido, 2015; Maciel, Folle, Souza, Vaz, & Salles, 2017; Storm & Eske, 2021) , others have revealed that sports practice negatively interferes with students’ academic success, so that the more time athletes dedicate to sport, the lower their school grades (Costa, 2007; Pereira, 2011; López de Subijana, Barriopedro, & Sanz, 2015). There are also studies that confirm that there is no interference from one activity to the other, given that there is no prejudice in the time dedicated to studies due to sports participation (Zenha, Resende, & Gomes, 2009; Frade, 2012). Despite the relevance of the theme and the growth of scientific literature in recent years, systematic reviews carried out previously focused primarily on psychological aspects (Stambulovaa & Wylleman, 2019), transition and post-retirement (Knights & Ruddock-Hudson, 2016), athletes of elite (Costa et al., 2021) and legal and social policy issues in Europe (Kornbeck, 2017), showing the absence of investigations focusing on the relationships